This may or may not turn out to be entertaining, but it’s an idea I had. Here’s the premise: you are given a bag of groceries. You can choose to add three more things of your own, and you do not have to use all of the provided ingredients, but you might be required to use certain ones.
The bag can either contain spices or let you use your own. Salt and water are always allowed and don’t count against your three items, as are things like butter or olive oil for sauteeing.
Using what you’ve got, come up with a dish.
So give it a shot?
Here is what is in your bag(s):
mushrooms
onions
broccoli
eggs
cheese (any kind)
peanut butter
corn muffin mix
sausage (or Boca sausage, in my case!)
red wine
sour cream
Well, nothing too fancy here, but I think it would still come out rather tasty.
Preheat oven to 375 F.
In a cast iron skillet, melt some butter over medium low heat and add the onions (half a large onion or a whole small one) and 'shrooms (chopped up, maybe about 1/3 of a cup when chopped)) and sweat with a pinch of salt. When those are nearly done, add in the sausage (1/4-1/2 a pound) and cook until it is browned.
While those are cooking, beat four eggs with about 1/2 cup of shredded cheese (swiss or some montery jack would be best,) a pinch of salt, a dash of cayanne pepper (an added ingredient) and a few grinds of black pepper (consider it one of my adds as well in case pepper isn’t a given.) When the sausage is done, drain off the excess fat and pour the egg mixture into the pan, mix it all together nicely, and transfer to the oven.
After 10-15 minutes, or when the mixture is almost, but not entirely, set, sprinkle on about 1/4 cup more shredded cheese on top, switch the oven to broil and move the skillet to the top rack and leave it there for just enough time for the cheese to melt them remove from the oven.
Let it set for about five minutes, then take a knife and loosen it along the edges. Invert onto a plate, then invert onto a second plate. Cut into wedges and enjoy your frittita.
I’d probably do something very similar to the above, but whisk the egg whites to stiff peaks to make a souffle omelette.
Not sure how it would work, but maybe use the rest of the eggs (and some milk and sugar) to make a creme brulee with crunchy peanut butter in the bottom? I have a feeling this might just be one of these things that sounds tasty in my head, and nowhere else. Perhaps a peanut bread and butter pudding?
Oh, and I’d drink the wine. If I managed to finish the bottle while I was cooking then it will taste good whatever happens.
Never heard of it before…but it does sound similar!
Both of those sound good!
Here’s my submission (and I promise I tried to be random with the ingredients and not go for something I would know how to put together already)
mushrooms and onions are sauteed briefly in some olive oil.
broccoli is steamed until bright but still firm.
mix the sour cream and some cream cheese over low heat with some garlic (add 1) and salt and some milk (add 2) to make a thick cream sauce.
Stir the mushrooms, onions, broccoli, and sausage into the cream sauce and spread evenly into a casserole dish.
eggs and milk (from add 2) go into the corn muffin mix, which gets spread over the top of the casserole. Sprinkle shredded cheddar cheese on top (add 3, since I used up the cheese with the cream cheese.)
Bake until the cornbread is done, the rest should be done, too.
I don’t know if it would work but it sounds interesting!
I’m not even going to try to use all the ingredients, but I’m also not going to take the cheap way out and add anything (since there are plenty of good meals that are themselves only three items or less). Brown the sausage, the mushrooms, and the onions together. Then use the eggs and sour cream (in place of milk) to make a nice omelette base. Fill with the sausage, mushrooms, onions, and cheese (preferably cheddar, but any sort would work in a pinch). Top with additional sour cream.
I would add, chicken, hot sauce and noodles and make a sort of Thai dish by mixing the peanut butter and the hot sauce to make a satay sauce, sauteing the chicken, broccoli, onions, wine and mushrooms and then mixing in the scrambled eggs topped with the satay sauce.
a breakfast casserole could be made with eggs, sausage, onions, mushrooms and cheese topped with cornbread dumplings
add beef to the onions, mushrooms and red wine then mix sourcream with tomato paste to serve over rice (or noodles) for beef stroganoff.
Essentially, two viewers come on, each brings a bag of stuff that’s not supposed to cost more than £5 (about $8), and they and a celebrity chef have 20 minutes to make three dishes from their bag, using only those ingredients, and normal stuff than any viewer could be expected to have in their own cupboards and fridge.
At the end of the time, the studio audience votes which dishes looked the most appealing (they don’t taste them).
No one wins any cash prizes.
Everyone goes home…
It’s surprisingly watchable, but only if you can cope with Ainsley Harriott.